blogging
July 15, 2008
Creating a ‘killer’ blog is not that hard to understand … but it is hard to do.
As the title of this post suggest, there are three things you need if you want to create a ‘killer’ blog:
- Start with a great blog software.
- Get a great design.
- Produce great content.
The list above is in order of doing, but not the order of importance: content is still king and so you must be able to produce quality content on a regular basis for your blog, otherwise it won’t work.
Let’s look at some details …
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June 27, 2008
I just wanted to announce that my video tutorials on installing and using WordPress are being featured in the latest edition of Web Designer Magazine.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
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June 12, 2008
What is a gravatar?
Let’s take it from the source:
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
From a community members point of view, what’s cool about gravatars is that you don’t have to upload your avatar image on every blog, forum or community that you are a member of. And from the community owner’s point of view, you can now add a little pizazz to your blog or forum with your members gravatars.
You can read more about gravatars in the magazine.
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May 9, 2008
Hi,
First things first: thank you for Akismet!
… I just wanted to offer my sincere appreciation for the WordPress anti-spam plugin: ‘Askimet’.
This nifty plugin has saved me countless hours (and possibly days) of work by filtering out hundreds of spam post each and every day!
I can easily say that for me, Askimet has proven to be the most important plugin for WordPress.
… Just in the time it took me to write this post, Askimet has caught 7 spam comments!
If you see a spammer, smack him!
It is clear that blog spammers are among the worst of Web citizens. They are the hyena’s of the Web, trying to steal traffic they don’t deserve.
Blog spam protection tips
Being a high value spam target (the juicier the traffic …), I can offer the following advice:
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January 8, 2008
Hi,
I decided to create a dedicated WordPress section on killersites.com
Right now, I only a have a few videos (with a bunch more coming) but I am also thinking of maybe some written tutorials etc…
The videos:
So far I’ve only added a few videos but have another 40 minutes of video to edit that should be up this week.
Any comments or suggest are welcome.
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
www.killerphp.com
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November 23, 2007
Hi,
For the last couple of years I have been preaching that web designers should learn at least one blog or CMS (content management systems) software so that they can then offer blog/CMS installations and customizations to their clients.
The use of blogs/cms’ is also one of the reasons why I think web designers should learn PHP, given that most blogs are created with PHP these days.
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October 9, 2007
In the following article, using a question and answer format, I try to answer some of the common questions about how blogs fit within a business.
1. Can you describe your introduction to blogging, how you became interested how has it impacted you personally?
I first heard about blogging in about 2001 and dismissed it as another tool for people who didn’t want to learn HTML. A year or so later, I realized the significance of blogging and blogging software:
… it was going allow for the original vision of the Web to actually materialize, where anyone could easily get a website on the Web.
Blogs and the blog phenomenon, made me rethink my whole approach to web design as a web professional: blogs, CMS and other similar content formatting tools where the future of web design.
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